Sara Drake: “My brain thinks in 3D rather than 2D.”

Very Expensive Maps

Fremantle-based mapmaker, artist and illustrator Sara Drake on her first globe, her two-year wait list, the challenge of photographing her ultra-detailed 3D maps, and adding to a piece until “someone physically wrestles it out of [her] hands.” See her maps at saradrake.com

• India map
• Mexico map
• Her photographer Henry Whitehead

Map artists she likes:

• Kate Tarling
• Linda Gass
• Bodys Isek Kingelez
• Michele Tranquillini
• Martin Haake
• Katherine Baxter
• Nate Padavick
• Anna Simmons
• Tania Willis
• Joyce Kozloff
• Helen Cann
• Janet Browne
• Chris Kenny
• Rodica Prato
• Bek Cruddace
• Libby Vanderploeg
• Rohan Chakravarty
• Sudarshan Shaw
• Ben Sack

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